You don't drink, good for you. Don't act like you're better than someone else. It's like there is no medium with these people, you either have to drink all the time or not at all. It is possible to drink once in awhile.

I get it. When you get a little older, you realize that unless you want to die in your late fifties as a half crippled overweight drunk with all kinds of cardio and digestive problems, you scale back your alcohol intake and save it for special occasions. Nothing wrong with this.

This is one of the reasons people are living longer nowadays. I'll forgo a night with Jamesons now to spend one with Jemesons at 85.

"Round, round with the glass, boys, as fast as you can,Since he who don't drink cannot be a true man.For if truth is in wine, then 'tis all but a whimTo think a man's true when the wine's not in him.Drink, drink, then, and hold it a maxim divineThat there's virtue in truth, and there's truth in good wine!"--Benjamin Cooke

Such is the beauty of living somewhere like Australia, I guess; living where I do, where it's some form of winter for 8-9 months out of the year, your choices are drink and freeze or not drink and freeze...

Tat'dGreaser:You don't drink, good for you. Don't act like you're better than someone else. It's like there is no medium with these people, you either have to drink all the time or not at all. It is possible to drink once in awhile.

Tat'dGreaser:You don't drink, good for you. Don't act like you're better than someone else. It's like there is no medium with these people, you either have to drink all the time or not at all. It is possible to drink once in awhile.

Stimied in a Rut:Getting drunk isn't the entertainment, it's part of the larger activity that is the entertainment. Tailgating before a sports event or concert, hanging with friends at the bar, going to a party, etc.

sephjnr:Stimied in a Rut: Getting drunk isn't the entertainment, it's part of the larger activity that is the entertainment. Tailgating before a sports event or concert, hanging with friends at the bar, going to a party, etc.

deanis:I'm guessing you are 30+ and your co-workers are 20 somethings. amirite?

Nope, we're all about the same age. Some older than me some younger. There is a real culture around this behavior where I work. They're all trial lawyers - and perhaps don't have the healthiest habits.

Tat'dGreaser:You don't drink, good for you. Don't act like you're better than someone else. It's like there is no medium with these people, you either have to drink all the time or not at all. It is possible to drink once in awhile.

This actually sounds pretty reasonable:

"I felt like I was just drinking all the time, and I'm at a point in my life where it's probably not doing a world of good for my health, so I thought I'd just go without for a while, and see how it goes."

I actually like the promotion of temporary sobriey since it avoids the all-or-nothing quality of complete temperance. Gives the person a chance to reset their body and change their habits.

Getting drunk as an activity is something that lonely people do. A healthier goal is to have actual activities you enjoy, or spend time with your family and friends, or if all else fails, get into video games.

Nope, we're all about the same age. Some older than me some younger. There is a real culture around this behavior where I work. They're all trial lawyers - and perhaps don't have the healthiest habits.

Yeah, I can imagine a job like that can be stressful.

I personally have never encountered a group that drinks heavier than restaurant workers. Especially servers. Bartenders though, while they can put the booze away, tend to favor harder drugs, at least the ones that I've known.

If you want to drink, then do it. If you don't, then don't. I dont know why its such a crime to have a beer or cocktail. I go out to lunch with some co-workers on occasion and everyone orders a water or Iced Tea. I order a beer and I get the "OMG you are going to DRINK?? during the WORKDAY???" stares. And I'm in my thirties and the rest of them are mostly in their 20's. This is usually on a Friday afternoon as well. PATHETIC. 10 years ago when I was in my 20's the whole company I used to work for would go out for lunch on a Friday and basically get drunk and never come back until Monday LOL. Including the owners.

At first, just being buzzed (whatever the substance) is the entertainment. After a while, you learn to make it a complement of something else. Getting high was fun just in itself. Now, that alone isn't enough, so I pair it with video games. Kind of like jerking off. At first, just that was fun. Now I have to spice it up, like doing it at the mall or into a mail dropbox.

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

BEER_ME_in_CT:If you want to drink, then do it. If you don't, then don't. I dont know why its such a crime to have a beer or cocktail. I go out to lunch with some co-workers on occasion and everyone orders a water or Iced Tea. I order a beer and I get the "OMG you are going to DRINK?? during the WORKDAY???" stares. And I'm in my thirties and the rest of them are mostly in their 20's. This is usually on a Friday afternoon as well. PATHETIC. 10 years ago when I was in my 20's the whole company I used to work for would go out for lunch on a Friday and basically get drunk and never come back until Monday LOL. Including the owners.

I too have seen this on many occasions. One of my first jobs out of college in advertising sales, on several nights a week a manager would basically take the entire team out on the company credit card to get smashed. Sometimes they would just give us the card and tell us to make sure they got it back the next day. This was a fortune 500 company as well. The culture only 15 years ago was vastly different than it is now. HR and lawsuits etc ruined that kind of fun. Before I left they wouldn't let us fill the coolers for the softball team on game days.

BEER_ME_in_CT:If you want to drink, then do it. If you don't, then don't. I dont know why its such a crime to have a beer or cocktail. I go out to lunch with some co-workers on occasion and everyone orders a water or Iced Tea. I order a beer and I get the "OMG you are going to DRINK?? during the WORKDAY???" stares. And I'm in my thirties and the rest of them are mostly in their 20's. This is usually on a Friday afternoon as well. PATHETIC. 10 years ago when I was in my 20's the whole company I used to work for would go out for lunch on a Friday and basically get drunk and never come back until Monday LOL. Including the owners.

I hate that shiat. Happens to me too. It's a farking beer I'm not even going to feel anything from it, what's the big deal?